Lest
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_1 14:23
that I will not take a thread or sandal strap or anything that belongs to you, so you can never say, 'I made Abram rich.'
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_7 7:2
The LORD said to Gideon, "You have too many people for Me to hand the Midianites over to you, or else Israel might brag: 'I did it myself.'
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_23 48:5
therefore I declared to you long ago; I announced it to you before it occurred, so you could not claim: My idol caused them; my carved image and cast idol control them.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_23 48:7
They have been created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today, so you could not claim, "I already knew them!"
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_38 12:7
The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of David's house and the glory of Jerusalem's residents may not be greater than that of Judah.
We
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_18 12:2
No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_18 15:8-10
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Do you listen in on the council of God, or have a monopoly on wisdom?
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What do you know that we don't? [What] do you understand that is not [clear] to us?
10
Both the gray-haired and the elderly are with us, men older than your father.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_23 5:21
Woe to those who are wise in their own opinion and clever in their own sight.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_24 9:23
This is what the LORD says: The wise must not boast in his wisdom; the mighty must not boast in his might; the rich must not boast in his riches.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_26 28:3
Yes, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_46 1:19-21
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For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the understanding of the experts.
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Where is the philosopher? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn't God made the world's wisdom foolish?
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For since, in God's wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of the message preached.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_46 1:27-29
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Instead, God has chosen the world's foolish things to shame the wise, and God has chosen the world's weak things to shame the strong.
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God has chosen the world's insignificant and despised things-- the things viewed as nothing-- so He might bring to nothing the things that are viewed as something,
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so that no one can boast in His presence.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_46 3:18
No one should deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, he must become foolish so that he can become wise.
God
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_18 1:21
saying: Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will leave this life. The LORD gives, and the LORD takes away. Praise the name of the LORD.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_18 2:10
"You speak as a foolish woman speaks," he told her. "Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?" Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_18 4:9
They perish at a [single] blast from God and come to an end by the breath of His nostrils.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_18 6:4
Surely the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks their poison. God's terrors are arrayed against me.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_18 19:6
then understand that it is God who has wronged me and caught me in His net.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_18 19:21
Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for God's hand has struck me.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_43 19:11
"You would have no authority over Me at all," Jesus answered him, "if it hadn't been given you from above. This is why the one who handed Me over to you has the greater sin."
